Speaking Of Hot Air

My Batshit Insane Future Ex-wife is upset at the "NYTimes blabbermouths" again:

Meant to get to this earlier, but the newspaper of wreckage is at it again--publishing illegally leaked classified information about the war in yet another transparent effort to sway the election.

The article title: "Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos."

After blabbing about the classified info revelaed in the article for 11 paragraphs, the Times notes:

A spokesman for the Central Command declined to comment on the index or other information in the slide. “We don’t comment on secret material,” the spokesman said.

The article then continues to blab about the illegally leaked info for another seven paragraphs.

Really, honey, our relationship won't last long if you keep blowing up over stupid shit.  Next you'll be yelling at me for letting dishes pile up in the sink.

Seriously, though, this is truly insane.  Every objective observer knows that Iraq is pretty much in chaos, civil war, and not-at-all-goodness.  119 Iraqi police were killed in October, as were 105 Americans, just for starters.

Remember one of the shifting justifications wingers used to defend outing Valerie Plame?  One was, "well, hey, everybody really knew she was a NOC, so it wasn't really a leak!"  Guess what: everybody knows Iraq is a disaster and telling us that the US military knows isn't a leak, either.

What's more, this is an issue of transparency.  The Times did not leak operational details, merely something that an informed public should be told by its government.  But of course, this is SOP for the rightwing nuttard apologists: decry the exposure of the truth to deflect attention from the truth at all costs.

ntodd